PROCESS FOR MANUFACTURING A TEXTILE ITEM BY MEANS OF A CIRCULAR WEFT KNITTING MACHINE, AND TEXTILE ITEM REALIZED BY MEANS OF THIS PROCESS

A process for manufacturing a textile item by means of a circular weft knitting machine, of seamless type and provided at least with a feed, a needle-bearing organ supporting a plurality of needles, a plurality of knockover sinkers. The process provides the programming of the knitting machine so as to define a textile item consisting of a plurality of successive stitch rows (R) of knitted fabric in succession, and to produce weft knitted fabric for manufacturing the textile item, according to the programming step. In the programming step is set at least a designed motif, defined on at least two successive stitch rows, i.e. following one another, in which in at least one of the two successive rows a portion of terrycloth knitted fabric (S) is present. The designed motif is defined on a plurality of consecutive rows and consists of a serial repetition, for a certain number of times more than 1, of the two successive stitch rows, so as to obtain a structure with alternating rows, consisting of an alternating sequence of first rows and second rows of the two successive rows.